I think this could be amazing, maybe with limited specialisations or none at all. I can't think of any glaringly obvious balance issues with that (I haven't given it a huge amount of thought mind). Lets have some more bolt action.. action, it is WW2 after all.
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But there never seemed to be more than 1 or 2 full servers at any one time, so unlikely Dice would see justification in reintroducing the mode with any low player count data.
He's talking about giving every class access to the bolt action rifles on the vanilla modes. I was calling for that on BF 1 as well. But they really should make them more usable. This game is even worse than BF1 for infantry rifles. I think all they need to do is increase the reload speeds to make them more usable at medium and even shorter ranges.
if your issue is going to be that everyone runs around with assault weapons, well, that's because there's no balance currently. that would allow everyone to at least compete honestly.
Yeah it would be nice to see all class iron sight bolt actions in vanilla. I think having them more difficult to use than other guns would suit this although they could use a damage buff imho.
So if say we had a common rifle, it would need to be a middle ground one with similar stats across factions to start out balanced in anyway. Enfield/kar98 are too different to offer a fair balance every game. Something like the kar98 would be good simply because for the damage/range advantage there is trade off with ROF and reload speed. I know folks will disagree and say the enfield,model 8, or similar but these would have too many advantages over the class weapons too often and would again be a cause of major imbalance. The kar98 specs give a nice equal mix of advantage vs difficulty of use.
The suggestion to increase their ROF/reload speed above just turns everything into assault like SLRs so its a bad direction to go in IMO and just breaks all the classes and any differences between them or their uses
TNT should be with support class at the very least, would help distribte AT a bit more across a squad instead of one rambo class
I can't see it upsetting the balance that much, I mean we just got the (imho) overpowered ZK383 after players asked for some range love for Medic, so as the game progresses the class differences tend to homogenise slightly anyway. Adding bolt actions would be an easy way to give a range/skilled option to all classes rather than endless tweaking. If they kept them with iron sights and long bolt cycling time I'm guessing most players would still select the class specific guns. Maybe not, who knows, I still think it would be cool.
I mean i agree to an extent in that it would be kinda cool. I'm all for the more authentic feeling of fighting in WW2. But i think having better balancing and overall just having a more fun game are far more important than immersion and authenticity.
I would love to see a gamemode similar to Back to Basics though outside of the core gameplay. Maybe each squad could use bolt actions while they could have one squad member allowed to use an mmg to replicate a standard german infantry squadron with multiple rifleman and a machine gun crew. Just a thought
then I came to the realization of how easier if was for the assaults with x3 scopes to countersnipe me.